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↑Aryans and British India, Thomas R. Trautmann, Yoda Press, 2004, ISBN 978-81-902272-1-6, ... that Persian is closely related to Sanskrit, and that it is not closely related to Arabic, loanwords apart. Having twice read Firdausi, whose Shahnameh is almost devoid of Arabic words, he tells us, he finds that hundreds of Persian nounds are pure Sanskrit with no more change than one finds in the modern languages of India, that very many Persian imperatives are the roots of Sanskrit verbs, and that even the moods and tenses of the Persian verb substantive are deducible from the Sanskrit by an easy and clear analogy ...